The Current ratio of Ashford Inc is 1.09
Current ratio is a liquidity ratio that measures whether or not a company has enough resources to meet its short-term obligations.
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The current ratio is an indication of a company's liquidity and measures the capability to meet a company's short-term obligations. It compares a firm's current assets to its current liabilities, and is expressed as current assets divided by current liabilities. The ratio is only useful when two companies are compared within industry because inter industry business operations differ substantially. To determine liquidity, the current ratio is not as helpful as the quick ratio, because it includes all those assets that may not be easily liquidated, like prepaid expenses and inventory.
Acceptable current ratios vary from industry to industry. In many cases an investor would consider a high current ratio to be better than a low current ratio, because a high current ratio indicates that the company is more likely to pay the investor back. Large current ratios are not always a good sign for investors. If the company's current ratio is too high it may indicate that the company is not efficiently using its current assets or its short-term financing facilities. If current liabilities exceed current assets the current ratio will be less than 1. A current ratio of less than 1 indicates that the company may have problems meeting its short-term obligations.
Some types of businesses can operate with a current ratio of less than one however. If inventory turns into cash much more rapidly than the accounts payable become due, then the firm's current ratio can comfortably remain less than one. Inventory is valued at the cost of acquiring it and the firm intends to sell the inventory for more than this cost. The sale will therefore generate substantially more cash than the value of inventory on the balance sheet. Low current ratios can also be justified for businesses that can collect cash from customers long before they need to pay their suppliers.
ashford inc. is a publicly traded (nyse mkt: ainc) third-party asset manager and service provider to the hospitality industry with more than $6 billion in assets under management. ashford inc. currently serves as the external manager for ashford hospitality prime (nyse: ahp) and ashford hospitality trust (nyse: aht). ashford hospitality prime invests primarily in high revpar, luxury, upper upscale and upscale hotels in gateway and resort locations. ashford hospitality trust invests opportunistically with a focus on full-service upscale and upper upscale hotels that have a revpar generally less than twice the u.s. national average. ashford hospitality prime and ashford hospitality trust have been public companies since november 2013 and august 2003, respectively.